Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-23

Help THE POoR.--A short time ago. q
New York paper published an account of a
child beipg run over and badly hurt by a
raising carriage. The little fellow. being
,s,led up and regainirg consciousness, told
he adv, the occupant of the carriage that
aid the mischief, that he lived "just around
the corner" aud the story IVES very graph.
cslly told OF the lady's horror and amaze
m4nt at finding lust around the corner of
one Of the city's most fashionable thorough.
f,res and within 8 stones throw Of her own
n.lstial home, such scene of pitifnl need
and suffering. This is not an isolated case
THE poor ye have always with you," are
familiar words and q familiar fact, and
oiqst around the corner" in our own town,
or often al cur very doors, can this be real
j2=d By little going amongst the dwell
rncs OF the very poor. and. as the deserving
roor often suffer in silence, only in going to
Them can their needs be known and their
hort aud painful annals be fully under
stood. snch pathetic sights are sometimes
revealed the flower growing in tin can,
carefully tended, while they suffer from
Geld aud hunger; the print and picture card
% The bare walls, such pathetic strivings
after something little better tbs n the grim
.qualor of their daily lives. In one old
muse pear the river, q house built Then
AexaudriA f'st held the promise of bright
and prosperous future, house, perchance,
where courtly danes in powder and
Gallant swains in knee-breeches were
wont to gather, but on whose time
worn, ctumbling walls now is written,
lchabod," lives Ell aged, afflicted woman,
-olely dependent upon daughter now sick
IL u. 1,l, of fki, af
tleuty and good will" with nothing TO eat,
save v hat some good Samaritan may chance
10 send from day to day. Another misera-
b.eroof shelters woman dying of cousump-
ION, With six children to feed and clothe
is The procctd DIS of her needle, sitting up in
bed, racked with pain, making garments at
ten cents piece, to keep her little ones
ffom starving before her eyes, which will
soon be closed forever on the want and sor-
row of this world A poor creature with
several small children has o son, her only
support, i'll CT some apparently iucurable
disease, dying possibly for lack of food and
care she bsirg away all day from home to
earn the few cents wherewth TO buy bread
aud fuel scene of pitiful restitution was
witnessed that If a woman with five half
clothed, bare footed children, not a particle
of food, and on December day not spark
of fire. Yet another case A sick mother,
the father out CT work. seven poor little
slarvelings, one little boy on clutches, g
gentle, sweet.voiced little fellow, the Tiny
FIN" OF the household, on whose
white, patient, little face no trace
Of childhood fingered, but with joy,
pitiful to see clapped his thin little
hands when he was told that Santa
Claus wss coming to bring him toy on
Christmas day. Theseare only some ofmany
cases, none Of which are fictitious; all or any
ono can be reached. It is more blessed to give
than to receive, to give to Gods Suffering
poor; the hottest pleasure we can ever
have And es you sit by your happy Christ.
mas hearths the knowledge of having carried
comfort ana brightness to any one of the
da,keued homes lust around The corner"
TO have made little child happy, 10 have
spared but little cut Of your abundance
to some suffering fellow creature, will make
the hearth Tres burn the brighter, the voices
OF your children sound the eweeter, the
blessed Christmas tide The more Joyous.
Then twiue in Tue Holly weaths, the immor-
telles of kindly deeds, help and happiness
given in His uame. For inasmuch as ye
DID it unto the least Of these, ye did ii unto
Me